Only twice have the Baggies opened a 21st century second tier campaign with a victory and Friday evening’s game at Bournemouth is only the second time they have opened with a draw. Robbie di Matteo’s promotion season started with a 1-1 draw with eventual champions, Newcastle United, at the Hawthorns when Shelton Martis’s first half opener was equalised by Damien…
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A final day 3-1 defeat makes 2020/21 Albion’s worst ever Premier League season level on points with 2002/03 but with an inferior goal difference. Only once have the Baggies won their final game in a Premier League season, beating Portsmouth in 2005 to complete the Great Escape which you can read about here. There have been a couple of memorable…
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Only one former Albion side has had fewer points in the Premier League with one match to go – Gary Megson’s side in the Baggies’ first Premier League season had just 25 points from 37 games while the teams in 2005, 2009 and 2018 had 31 points and only the Great Escape in 2005 escaped relegation. You can read more…
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More late heartbreak for Albion leaves them on 26 points from 36 games, with Megson’s first Premier League team as the only one with fewer points at the same stage of the season. That side also lost at home to Liverpool in game 36, but the scoreline on that occasion was somewhat more emphatic! In 2005, Bryan Robson’s Baggies were…
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Relegation for this season’s Baggies was finally confirmed with defeat at Arsenal, but three years ago, a 2-2 draw with Liverpool kept Darren Moore’s Albion alive a little longer, despite having fewer points that Allardyce’s team at the same stage. In Albion’s worst ever season, 1985/86, game 35 saw Ron Saunders record his first victory as Albion boss as an…
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Albion may have failed to register successive league doubles against Wolves, but the point means that the Baggies’ unbeaten record against their Black Country rivals will extend to beyond ten years, and their home unbeaten record to more than 25 years by the time the clubs meet again. That does, of course, assume that Albion don’t host Wolves again before…
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